Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-08-26
MINOR NOTES.

Tine Bennington Banner did a good and
painstaking piece of newspaper work last
week in its report of the proceedings at
tendant upon the laying of the monument
cornerstone. 1t practically gave its issue
up to the subject, devoting its first page to
a careful record of the various steps which
have finally led up to the building of the
monument, and a large part of its inside
space 10 report of the celebration pro
ceedings.
Lieut.. Gov. Smith of Illinois is surprised
To see what remarkable strength Robert 7.
Lincoln is developing as a candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination.
Jacob Sharp has not yet gone TO Sing
Sing Judge Potter is studying up the case
to see if there is any ground for granting
a stay in proceedings Sharps physicians
claim that he has recently been at the point
of death.
The verdict in the Chatsworth, H., rail
way disaster makes it easy for the railroad
company by putting the blame upon a sec
ton man who burned grass near the track
and did not take proper care to see that the
fire did not spread, The people of the vi
cinity are demanding searching investiga-
ton.
Speaking of the movement for organizing
working women the Woman's journal saws
that in Massachusetts there are more than
200, 600 women who earn their support by
work outside of their homes, at less than
One-hAlf the average rate of wages paid to
men. In Boston alone there are 90, 900
women employed in shops and stores at from
81 TO 81 per week
The Lincoln monument at Springfield. H.
is to be repaired at a cost of $40, 200, the
amount Of the legislative appropriation.
The stone walls of the structure are crumb-
ling away, and the whole monument was so
carelessly built that it is likely TO tumble
down at any time
The assignee's statement of the affairs of
Henry S. Ives, the young Napoleon" of
New York finance, who came to grief a
short time ago shows that he had liabilities
Of $23, 7S6, 200, and assets of SIG, 429. 723.
Ives is 81 years old and native of Itch
field, Conn. He began operations in New
York as a clerk for Harper Bros, but after
two or three years entered Wall street
where he has been counted the greatest fin
ancial wonder and success of the age.
An invitation to visit their city sent TO
the President by the people of Atlanta is
about the size Of a duOdecimo book, and has
four leaves Of Georgia gold, bound with
clasps of Georgia silver, each one set with
Georgia diamond. The box containing it
Is inlaid with 6S samples of Georgia wood,
which is embedded in Georgia marble Of
every shade from black to white
Gov Hill of New York has offered a prize
of S25 for the best pair of colored twins OK
hibited at the coming baby fair in East Au-
rora. 1t is master stroke, and its bril-
hancy becomes perfectly dazzling when con
trasted with President Clevelands offer of
a ten-dollar gold-pieee for the most engag-
ing set Of triplets presented upon the same
suspicious occasion. II is a cheap exhibi
ton on the part of both these officials.
This week the situation is still further com
plieated, ethnically, by the offer of Mayor
Becker of Buffalo of prize of $40 for the
best Indian child. This is to give the rem
nant Of the Six Nations tribe a chance.